The Deliveries and Fastballs of the Softbank Hawks

Continuing the look at the deliveries of pitchers in the NPB, this post is a look at the deliveries of the Softbank Hawks, in both screenshot and GIF forms. I tried to get the screenshots from behind, but for some I had to do from the home plate perspective. I tried to use a different video or game to make the GIF, just so readers have different angles, etc. Also, building off the look at fastball effectiveness broken down by velocity, I took a look at each pitcher's last week of pitching (for most of them, just one outing) and used the formula to see how their fastballs would project in the Majors (instead of separating each individual fastball into the velocity groups, I just used the averages of the fastballs in and out of the zone, but still used the percentages of the fastballs thrown inside and out of the zone). The ERA - by each pitcher's name is their 2013 number, and isn't park adjusted.

Brian Falkenborg: 48 ERA-

Projected Fastball: 6.89 whiff %, 22.62 contact %, .97 HR %

Shingo Tatsumi: 117 ERA -

Projected Fastball: 4.36 whiff %, 14.39 contact %, .96 HR %

Kazuyuki Hoashi: 133 ERA -

Projected Fastball: 4.97 whiff %, 20.54 contact %, 1.02 HR %

Akira Niho: 101 ERA -

Projected Fastball: 4.66 whiff %, 27.77 contact %, 1.5 HR %

Ryota Igarashi: 57 ERA -

Projected Fastball: 6.81 whiff %, 20.27 contact %, .84 HR %

Shota Takeda: 98 ERA -

Projected Fastball: 4.59 whiff %, 18.27 contact %, .90 HR %

Masahiko Morifuku: 73 ERA -

Projected Fastball: 5.01 whiff %, 26.51 contact %, 1.6 HR %

Shota Oba: 148 ERA -

Projected Fastball: 5.16 whiff %, 18.46 contact %, 1.21 HR %

Shinya Kayama: 68 ERA -

Projected Fastball: 4.97 whiff %, 20.54 contact %, 1.3 HR %

Hayto Terahara: 133 ERA -

Projected Fastball: 5.95 whiff %, 18.75 contact %, .84 HR %

Takehito Kanazawa: 56 ERA-

Projected Fastball: 4.59 whiff %, 24.78 contact %, .64 HR %

Akihiro Yanase: 49 ERA -

Projected Fastball: 4.50 whiff %, 24.64 contact %, 1.4 HR %

Tadashi Settsu*: 65 ERA -

Projected Fastball: 4.8 whiff %, 21.64 contact %, .49 HR %

Vicente Padilla: 108 ERA -

Projected Fastball: 5.13 whiff %, 30.91 contact %, 1.9 HR %

Sho Iwasaki: 127 ERA -

Projected Fastball:  6.88 whiff %, 24.55 contact %, .85 HR %

Shintaro Ejiri*: 46 ERA -

Projected Fastball: 5.94 whiff %, 24.58 contact %, 1.15 HR %

*Thanks to the always helpful Michael Westbay for the help on Settsu, Padilla, and Iwasaki's pitch data.

*Thanks to Kazuto Yamazaki for the Ejiri GIF